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Very Rough Draft Friends and Colleagues: Intellectual Networking in England 1760-1776 Master‟s Thesis Presented to The Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis University Department of Comparative History Mark Hulliung, Advisor In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Master‟s Degree by Jennifer M. Warburton May 2010 Copyright by Jennifer Warburton May 2010 ABSTRACT Friends and Colleagues: Intellectual Networking in England 1760- 1776 A Thesis Presented to the Comparative History Department Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts By Jennifer Warburton The study of English intellectualism during the latter half of the Eighteenth Century has been fairly limited. Either historians study individual figures, individual groups or single debates, primarily that following the French Revolution. My paper seeks to find the origins of this French Revolution debate through examining the interactions between individuals and the groups they belonged to in order to transcend the segmentation previous scholarship has imposed. At the center of this study are a series of individuals, most notably Joseph Priestley, Richard Price, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. John Canton, Rev. Theophilus Lindsey and John Jebb, whose friendships and interactions among such diverse disciplines as religion, science and politics characterized the collaborative yet segmented nature of English society, which contrasted so dramatically with the salon culture of their French counterparts. iii Table of Contents INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 1 SEGMENTS OF ENGLISH INTELLECTUAL SOCIETY ......................................... 3 ORGANIZATIONAL AND INDIVIDUAL OVERLAP ............................................. 26 INFLUENCE AND FAME: THE CIRCLE UPON DISPERSAL ............................ 47 CONCLUSIONS ............................................................................................................. 51 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................... 53 iv Introduction What kind of Enlightenment did England have? Scholarship records the Enlightenment beginning with Locke and ending with the debates of the French Revolution, but during the long Eighteenth Century between these two English phenomena, English intellectualism disappeared from historical interest. Rather than the big intellectual leaps attributed to thinkers elsewhere during the Eighteenth Century, English liberalization has traditionally been seen as gradual, progressing incrementally from as far back as the Glorious Revolution, or even the Magna Carta. England failed to produce the big intellectual names which historians have traditionally attributed to the Enlightenment. The closest individuals to Enlightenment acceptance were the rational dissenters, whose activities at the end of the Eighteenth Century have long been a popular topic of scholarly research. Following the French Revolution, this group came to the forefront of intellectual and political consciousness. The Rational dissenters, characterized initially by a speech given by Dr. Richard Price, were the most steadfast supporters of the ideals of the French Revolution. The ideological battle characterized in the modern mind by Edmund Burke‟s Reflections on the French Revolution came to represent the fight between liberal revolutionary ideals and the gradual conservative English method. In the fallout of this debate, the liberals were seen to have lost, yet over the next century their influence grew throughout the British Isles and United States. This print debate encompassed the height of these dissenters‟ political, intellectual and spiritual careers, but very few historians have looked at the earlier period of their lives. During the three decades preceding this French Revolution, England‟s 1 philosophers of both the natural and spiritual realms made important discoveries and set the stage for their later influence. This paper seeks to examine the interpersonal relationships of certain intellectuals during the middle to late Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment England in order to examine how dissenters became so prominent during the last decade. Through examining the intellectual climate as a whole, a close knit circle of friends repeatedly appeared, able to bridge middle and upper class society through their friendships, acquaintances and group organizations. As the years progressed, these friendships changed and individual interests became more pronounced, but the connections of these early years influenced the rest of these individual lives. The first section will examine some of the most prominent areas of English intellectual society during this period and the various institutions and groups which played important roles in the movements of the time. While many of these groups have individual articles, and some even tomes written about them, this paper aims to show their interactions, specifically regarding the interplay between various individuals. Although this has been examined before over a few dimensions, such as the relationship between religion and politics or religion and science, there has been little study to question the larger scale interconnectedness, which is the aim of the second section. The social web was most dense in the half decade preceding the American Revolutionary War, when most of the prominent individuals resided in London and interacted daily. The last section examines how, during the decade leading up to the French Revolution, these individuals went their separate ways and developed different influences throughout the country, while retaining close ties with each other that facilitated their later fame. 2 Segments of English Intellectual Society Unlike France, whose salon culture has been extensively studied, the intellectual societies of England are generally understood merely as individual entities or skimmed over in favor of individual studies. The institutions themselves were not unique. Every Western country had churches, schools, scientists and literary figures, but the forms these groups took and their strong association with different intellectual traditions provided a unique situation for intellectual. This group structure accounts for the lack of immortal names on the level of Voltaire, David Hume or Immanuel Kant. In this system, the most brilliant people explored the wide spectrum of the philosophies, which included science and theology in addition to the traditional explorations of the human condition. Through studying the larger groups of intellectuals of various disciplines, the incredible feats of those who crossed these boundaries may be understood. During the Eighteenth Century, governments had some form of state religion, yet the English Dissenters are considered a special case. In 1563, the newly established Church of England drew up 39 articles by which the state church was going to be defined. These statements were drawn in the broadest of terms, describing the most basic aspects of the Protestant faith. In order to be an Anglican, constituents had to ascribe to all these tenets. Until the English Civil War, these were considered guidelines, but in the 1660s several laws went into affect restricting those whose beliefs did not conform to these standards. Parliament passed the Act of Toleration in 1689, which allowed freedom of worship to those nonconformists who ascribed to at least 36 of the 39 articles of faith, but only if they were formally registered and monitored. This stipulation prevented Catholics and Unitarians, who did not believe in the divinity of Jesus or the trinity, from 3 worshipping, but allowed for most moderate Protestant sects. Because only Anglicans were allowed in governmental posts, the most passionate rational dissenters were delegated to the private sphere where they were over represented in the intellectual circles up through the Eighteenth Century. Dissenters were allowed their own educational facilities, since they were often either refused admission elsewhere or refused to attend based on contrary beliefs. Brian Simon has done an extensive study on the connection of these dissenting academies with education reform in the Nineteenth Century. Using some of the same networking ideas I use in the rest of the paper, he examines both these dissenting academies and the scientific methods of the Lunar Society to show the evolution of dispensation of knowledge in Great Britain. 1 Throughout Europe, schools continued to operate under the jurisdiction of religious organizations, which often remained conservative regarding new scientific discoveries. Several thinkers of the French High Enlightenment thought that education reform was the solution to implementing social progress.2 There has been plenty written on the influence on Enlightenment ideas on reforming Revolutionary French schools, implying this stagnation rather than overtly proving it.3 Elsewhere, such as portions of Germany some education reform occurred, but this had more to do with reforming religion, specifically Catholicism than education.4 Unlike these institutionally required reforms, the change in English Dissenting education during this half-century had more to do with practical changes in the need for the students‟ educational needs. School 1 David Simon, The Two Nations and the Educational Structure 1780-1870, Studies in the History of Education (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1974). 2 Stanley
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